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1696 in Ireland

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1696 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: William III

Events

  • April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.
  • May 2 – The Irish Admiralty’s prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick.
  • Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.

Births

  • December 1 – Francis Burton, politician (d. 1744)
  • Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet, physician and politician (d. 1776)
  • Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister (d. 1768)
  • Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter (d. 1747)
  • Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)

Deaths

Henry Capel
  • March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (b. 1610)
  • May 9 – Henry Capell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1638)
  • October? – Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, politician.
  • December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1631)
  • Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet (b. before 1651)

References

References

  1. (1989). "A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History". Oxford University Press.
  2. "Volume 37: March 21-May 14, 1696 {{!}} British History Online".
  3. Richey, Rose. (October 2009). "Shackleton, Abraham".
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